Sherman Democrat
June 4, 1931
p.10

MRS. DONALD MURPHY - Funeral services for Mrs. Donald Murphy  27, of Melrose, New Mexico and formerly of Sherman, were held at 4 p.m. Thursday at the residence of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. F. Blanton, 310 W. Middleton street.  Dr. O. T. Cooper of the Travis Street  Methodist Church, assisted by Rev. E. H. Crandall of the Key Memorial Methodist church, officiated.  Interment was in Memorial Park.  The Dannel-Scott company directed arrangements. 
Mrs. Murphy died Wednesday morning at a local sanitarium where she had been for about a  week following an operation.  She lived here before her marriage, having been graduated from Sherman High school and Kidd-Key college and having attended Austin college. 
O. L. Blanton and Tom Blanton, brothers, are other survivors living in Sherman besides the parents.

(Researcher's note:  Mrs. Donald Murphy was the former Savilla Aline Blanton. Texas death records indicate a twin, who either was stillborn or died soon after birth, predeceased her. Other survivors unnamed in the obit were sisters, Flora May Blanton Lay and Nadine Blanton.  Her deceased grandparents were Thomas Jefferson Blanton and Elizabeth Jane Lock.)